Tools for Distributed Monitoring of the Campus Network with Low Latency Time

In addition to deployment of the commercial management products,a number of public and self developed tools are successfully used at Fermilab for monitoring of the campus network.A suite of tools consisting of several programs running in a distributed environment to measure network parameters such as average round-trip time.traffic,throughput,error rate,DNS responses and others from different locations in the network is used.The system maintains a central archive of data,makes analysis and graphical representation available via a web-based interface.The developed tools are based on integration with well known public software RRD,Cricket fping,iperf.